You are a man, a woman, an adolescent, or a child, and like all of us, you are conscious of a certain growing incivility of all kinds-violent robberies as well as everyday hostility, irrational, sometimes caught on video-that can affect each citizen in public or at school, work, and home.

You do not want you or your child to remain potential victims, realizing that preventive policing cannot operate everywhere at once to deter possible attackers. You believe in the rule of law, not rule by the strongest. You are liable to consider it your civic duty to intervene physically, if you witnessed an attack.

The substance of O.P.K. will meet your expectations by developing your capacity for self-defense, in particular, both your skill in acting under stress and your resilience. Self-mastery and self-confidence permit the conflict to be defused in most cases without confrontation.

With O.P.K.'s techniques for disengagement and simple countermeasures you will have a way to escape your attacker or dissuade him from continuing the physical confrontation. Technical knowledge and training serve to put you on a more even footing with an attacker, to correct the imbalance between weak and strong to your advantage. Regular training in the techniques of O.P.K. will allow you to extricate yourself from a threatening situation without physical injury or psychological trauma.

Combat training
Technique for defense against a waist hold.	Talking about safety with school groups.

O.P.K. is directed at adults and children who are potential victims of aggression in an environment where violent crime is on the rise

The first step in preventing an attack is to prepare yourself to face aggression by training psychologically and physically with tested curricula and pedagogical methods. The practitioner of O.P.K. is not a victim, object of attack or of the attacker, but an independent subject able to react and evade a criminal assault without injury before law enforcement or other security personnel can apprehend the offender.

The physical conditioning and athletic training of O.P.K., as well as its lessons about the phenomena of aggression and techniques of self-defense, build children and adolescents' sense of self in relation to both their physical and social environments. Children can avoid physical injury from school violence and the attendant trauma, not only by acquiring elementary and reflexive techniques that permit them to escape or resist aggression, but also by learning the set of community values based on the fundamental principle of respect for human dignity.

Self-awareness and self-respect, along with awareness and respect for others, as taught notably by traditional martial arts, are the foundation for a civic-minded and humanist way of life.